Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 23
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9:00 AM CDT on April 23, 2019
- Crain’s Looks at Cook County’s Population Loss Problem
- Lipinski Holds Hearing on Public Transit, Including Metra (My Suburban Life)
- Man Charged With DUI After Fatal Crash on the Edens Expressway Near Skokie (Sun-Times)
- White Woman Used Racial Slurs Against Black Female Crossing Guard in Niles (Tribune)
- Plan Commission Approves 19-Story Office Tower With 32 Spots at 800 W. Fulton (Block Club)
- Another Lipstick-on-a-Pig “Kinetic Wall” Parking Garage, With 137 Spots, Proposed (Curbed)
- Chicago Critical Mass Is this Friday, Leaving Daley Plaza Around 6 PM
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